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IRELAND

2 Gaiety An Post Stamps Joe Conlan, Gaiety Pantomime Dame, holds one of the four An Post stamps issued to celebrate 150 years of opening nights at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

The government agreed to sign up to a global agreement that would increase the State’s corporate tax rate for large companies to 15%.
The State pension age will rise by three months each year from 2028 until it hits 67 in 2031 under new government proposals.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has requested that services within the intensive care unit at St Vincent’s University Hospital “are curtailed until such a time that the unit is adequately staffed” following a report on chronic staff shortages by TheJournal.
The Dáil approved the extension of legislation that gives emergency powers to the minister to introduce vaccine passports for indoor dining until 9 January.
Irish rail launched an investigation after a government TD spoke about hearing a group of young men chanting about raping a woman on a nighttime DART train in Dublin yesterday evening.
Nine in 10 nurses and midwives f eel mentally exhausted as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to new research.
An EU move to develop new proposals on the operation of Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol is a welcome breakthrough, the leader of the DUP said.
A building site in Cork was sealed off by gardaí following the discovery of skeletal remains.
A petition opposing a proposal to build a hotel beside Dublin’s famous Cobblestone pub has received almost 20,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.

INTERNATIONAL

featureimage The 100-year-old former Nazi camp Josef S covers his face as he sits at the court room in Brandenburg, Germany Markus Schreiber / PA Markus Schreiber / PA / PA

#GERMANY: A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard who became the oldest person to be tried for Nazi-era crimes in Germany will not speak about his time at the site, his lawyer said at the trial opening today.

#NOBEL PRIZE: Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature for his work which has highlighted colonialism and the fate of refugees.

#TEXAS: A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the US, which since September has banned most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state.

PARTING SHOT

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers announced a Dublin date on their world tour next summer earlier today.

They’ll play Marlay Park on 29 June with support from Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, and Thundercat.

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